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2015 has been tough in many ways. We’ve had to deal with people like Donald Trump, with outrage about every damn thing on the internet, and then someone invented a sex toy called a vajankle *shudders*.

But among all that, there were some really lovely feel-good stories this year.

To remind us that good people exist and give us some warm, cosy end of year feels, here are Imgur’s most heartwarming stories of 2015.

After the little boy was thrown from a moving car after a crash which saw the vehicle flip over five times, Mississipi firefighter Casey Lessard got down on the floor and calmed him down by playing Happy Feet on his phone.

When the baby son of one of his students started crying during class, Dr. Sydney Engelberg, a professor in organisational behaviour at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, took the baby in his arms to calm him and carried on teaching. Now that’s a great teacher.

In a year when the Supreme Court legalised gay marriage in the US and Irish expats returned home in their droves to vote in the gay marriage referendum on May 21, making it legal for same-sex couples to marry there, this picture of two brides sheltering under their rainbow umbrella says it all.